MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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2022 music highlights with Ian Sinclair
Porridge Radio (Dana Margolin) at the Horn in January 2022
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
THERE has been lots of exciting new music released this year.
The quality and frequency of Shabaka Hutchings’s output continues to amaze me. In addition to the relentless album from his intergalactic outfit The Comet Is Coming — Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (impulse!) — the British jazz superstar also released his solo debut with Afrikan Culture (Impulse!), an astonishing and unexpected collection of meditative tracks.
Two artists struck gold by reaching back into the past to illuminate the present. On The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways), US folk musician Jake Blount brilliantly reimagines traditional songs from black history to create an Afrofuturist magnum opus about the climate emergency.
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